Genetic algorithm is a search heuristic. GAs can generate a vast number of possible model solutions and use these to evolve towards an approximation of the best solution of the model. Hereby it mimics evolution in nature. GA generates a population, the individuals in this population (often called chromosomes) have Read more »
I am still definitely in the proof of concept stage, but as I progress I get more excited about the prospects of combining d3.js with R and Axys through Bryan Lewis’ really nice R websockets package (even nicer now that he has added the daemonize fun...
After watching 20 wonderful dancers of the 9th season of So You Think You Can Dance, I have presented a geomap of the states where they are coming from (click here). Now, I am interested to this show’s history. I’d like to re-draw the … Continue reading →
Malpractice - A Booming Industry? Perhaps authors Frank Sloan, Randall Bovbjerg and Penny Githens capture it best from their book Insuring Medical Malpractice: "If aging Doctor Kildare were to return to medical practice today, having been...
Taken from a previous post in other website, maps below show the locations of epicenters and sequence of earthquakes that struck Negros last February 6, 2012. The bottom image is the animation these maps using animation package in R. Data was taken fr...
Ben Schmid took ship’s log data (previously visualized in static form on the the Spatial Analysis blog), and used ggplot and ffmpeg to animate the paths of individual voyages from 1750-1850. The images above come from the animation that combines all ...
In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users. Information Age published a feature article on R, describing how new graduates are driving adoption of R in industry. Bob Muenchen has updated his list of R package equivalents to SAS and SPSS procedures. A history of Data Science, including Bill Cleveland's...
Messing around with animations, I created this toy example to make a growing outline of a heart in R. I have put it up as a gist on GitHub and embedded it below. It uses the animation and the ggplot2 packages--both of which make it incredibly simple to...
Recent blog post on Animations in R inspired me to write a code that generates animations of simulation model. For this task I have chosen Schelling's segregation model.Having written the code I have found that one year ago a similar code has been...
Yesterday as I played with bfast I kept thinking “Yes, but this is all in hindsight. How can I potentially use this in a system?” Fortunately, one of the fine authors very generously commented on my post Structural Breaks (Bull or Bear?...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
